Artikel

Nonexclusive competition under adverse selection

A seller of a divisible good faces several identical buyers. The quality of the good may be low or high, and is the seller's private information. The seller has strictly convex preferences that satisfy a single-crossing property. Buyers compete by posting menus of nonexclusive contracts, so that the seller can simultaneously and privately trade with several buyers. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a pure-strategy equilibrium. Aggregate equilibrium trades are unique. Any traded contract must yield zero profit. If a quality is actually traded, then it is efficiently traded. Depending on parameters, both qualities may be traded, or only one of them, or the market may break down to a no-trade equilibrium.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-40 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Economics of Contract: Theory
Thema
Adverse selection
competing mechanisms
nonexclusivity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mariotti, Thomas
Salanié, François
Attar, Andrea
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Econometric Society
(wo)
New Haven, CT
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.3982/TE1126
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Mariotti, Thomas
  • Salanié, François
  • Attar, Andrea
  • The Econometric Society

Entstanden

  • 2014

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